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Cannes 2010’s Top 10 New Faces: Introducing Mark Womack

Last year Ken Loach introduced us to Steve Evets in Looking for Eric, and this year, topping this top ten list of New Faces from the Cannes Film Festival is Mark Womack – also a veteran actor for the small screen, but pretty much a beginner on the silver screen. In Route Irish, Womack takes on the angry role of Frankie – a contractor in Iraq who senses that his close friend’s death isn’t as what officials are claiming it to be. Frankie descends into madness, applies his own code of conduct and sets off on a war path of his own – the perf is raw just like many characters in Loach’s films.

Eric Lavallée

Published on May 27, 2010

#1. Mark Womack

Last year Ken Loach introduced us to Steve Evets in Looking for Eric, and this year, topping this top ten list of New Faces from the Cannes Film Festival is Mark Womack – also a veteran actor for the small screen, but pretty much a beginner on the silver screen. In Route Irish, Womack takes on the angry role of Frankie – a contractor in Iraq who senses that his close friend’s death isn’t as what officials are claiming it to be. Frankie descends into madness, applies his own code of conduct and sets off on a war path of his own – the perf is raw just like many characters in Loach’s films.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).